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Afro-Asiatic languages — formerly Hamito Semitic languages Family of about 250 languages spoken in North Africa, parts of sub Saharan African, and the Middle East. It includes such languages as Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Hausa. The total number of speakers is estimated … Universalium
Mass lexical comparison — or mass comparison is a highly controversial method developed by the well known linguist Joseph Greenberg to find genetic relationships among languages in the remote past, which he considered unsuitable for the mainstream comparative method, or… … Wikipedia
Urheimat — Indo European topics Indo European languages (list) Albanian · Armenian · Baltic Celtic · Germanic · Greek Indo Iranian (Indo Aryan, Iranian) Italic … Wikipedia
Mass comparison — is a method developed by Joseph Greenberg to determine the level of genetic relatedness between languages. It is now usually called multilateral comparison. The method is generally rejected by linguists (Campbell 2001, p. 45), though it has… … Wikipedia
language — /lang gwij/, n. 1. a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French… … Universalium
Sino-Tibetan languages — Sino Tibetan Geographic distribution: East Asia Linguistic classification: One of the world s major language families. Subdivisions: Sinitic Tibeto Burman ISO 639 … Wikipedia
Nilo-Saharan languages — Group of perhaps 115 African languages spoken by more than 27 million people from Mali to Ethiopia and from southernmost Egypt to Tanzania. The concept of Nilo Saharan as a single stock combining a number of earlier groupings was introduced in… … Universalium
Nostratic languages — Nostratic (controversial) Geographic distribution: Europe, Asia except for the southeast, North and Northeast Africa, the Arctic Linguistic classification: Borean (?) … Wikipedia
Niger–Congo languages — Niger–Congo Niger–Kordofanian (obsolete) Geographic distribution: Sub Saharan Africa Linguistic classification: one of the world s primary language families Subdivisions: Dogon … Wikipedia
Dené–Yeniseian languages — Dené–Yeniseian Geographic distribution: northwest North America and central Siberia Linguistic classification: Proposed language family. Subdivisions: Na Dené Yeniseian … Wikipedia
